CNAME Record

Find out more on CNAME records, when they are needed and in what ways they fit inside the DNS system.

There are many ways to redirect a domain name to an alternative domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. In case you own a domain and you have set up a website through some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that points to subdomain.provider.com. What you are going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com is going to be in the browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned site from the servers of the third-party provider. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record pointing to one provider and functioning email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and often further configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you have a shared web hosting plan from our company and you would like to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you just a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domains and subdomains hosted inside your account from the Hepsia Control Panel included with each and every plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which will be CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the change. In case you have never added such a record before, we have a Help section with a detailed video tutorial you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will assist you with this task. If you have built an Internet site via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain to be used with the services of a different provider, for example Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a couple of mouse clicks inside your CP.